The Kyoto Seishu Netsuke Art Museum, Japan’s first museum exclusively dedicated to netsuke, is proud to announce that its winter public opening has been scheduled for the month of February, 2012.

The museum holds approximately 2,500 netsuke pieces dating from the Edo period to the present and exhibits 400 selected pieces to the public four times a year. It is located near Nijo Castle, in a remodeled samurai residence that has preserved the stateliness of the original residence.

As this season’s special exhibition, the museum features the works of Jin KUWABARA, producing the work pieces using animals, sea creatures, insects and plants as his motifs. Born in 1956 in Gunma Prefecture, he began to carve ivory at a company he was working for and started netsuke production since 1997. We are sure that you will enjoy KUWABARA’s world of netsuke created with careful observation in order to pursue the realities in his works.

* Children at elementary school age and below are not allowed in the museum.* Photography is prohibited within the museum.
* No parking space is available. (Please use public transportation utilities.)